(Got this one from CNN too).
Also, I was bored and lazy, so I didn't do a lot of writing. So piss off, I'm the Queen.
Partially cut:
• $3.5 billion for energy-efficient federal buildings (original bill $7 billion)
At least they kept half of this one. It really is a needed stimulus.
• $75 million from Smithsonian (original bill $150 million)
Again, at least they kept half of this one. It's not much of a stimulating thing, but it is needed.
• $200 million from Environmental Protection Agency Superfund (original bill $800 million)
The EPA always needs cash for its superfund. I just don't know what it'll do.
• $100 million from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (original bill $427 million)
I wonder what NOAA will do with this money?
• $100 million from law enforcement wireless (original bill $200 million)
Wireless? So they have wireless capabilities? What? Explain what they will do with these things please.
• $300 million from federal fleet of hybrid vehicles (original bill $600 million)
This is good, at least they kept half of it. Not nearly enough to stimulate the hybrid vehicle market, but still a good thing.
• $100 million from FBI construction (original bill $400 million)
Construction, ey? I thought the other things was FBI salaries. Also, I thought all of the FBI buildings were already built. But, I guess, if you need to renovate, by all means do so.
Fully eliminated
• $55 million for historic preservation
This could create jobs (not for unemployed Americans) but for preservationists. I always think it's good to preserve things, but this needed to be put into another bill.
• $122 million for new Coast Guard polar icebreaker/cutters
Alright, I figured this one would go. Needs to be put into another bill.
• $100 million for Farm Service Agency modernization
I want to know how far back these people are before I say that this could have stayed.
• $50 million for CSERES research
Cut it, but what was it for? What the hell does the acronym stand for?
• $65 million for watershed rehabilitation
They don't like environmental protection, both Democrats and Republicans I see.
• $30 million for SD salaries
SD, SD, SD, what does it stand for? I'm too tired to think. I thought salaries were a good thing. Pay people money so they can spend it on stuff.
• $100 million for distance learning
Hmmm... Well I don't think this should be in this bill.
• $98 million for school nutrition
Education bills is where this junk belongs.
• $50 million for aquaculture
Aquaculture? Great word. But I thought if we protected the oceans, they would do our aquaculture for us.
• $2 billion for broadband
Well, cut it. Yeah, we can do this one later.
• $100 million for NIST
I didn't know NIST needed it...
• $50 million for detention trustee
Again, I didn't know these people needed it. A lot of this stuff really need their own bills, and to be put into other bills that they would fit better in.
• $25 million for Marshalls Construction
Lawl, this one could indeed be cut.
• $300 million for federal prisons
Our prisons are already one of the most comfortable systems of detention centers in the world. I really do think rehabilitation is bullshit, and we need more medieval dungeon in our prisons. I bet that would rehab people real quick.
• $300 million for BYRNE Formula
Cut. Anther bill, another time.
• $140 million for BYRNE Competitive
Cut. Another bill at another time.
• $10 million state and local law enforcement
Too damn little already. Put it in another bill some other time.
• $50 million for NASA
NASA needs to focus back on our oceans. We know more about space than our own ocean.
• $50 million for aeronautics
What? These are for other bills.
• $50 million for exploration
Yeah, really. Cut if for another time.
• $50 million for Cross Agency Support
Eh, another bill, indeed.
• $200 million for National Science Foundation
Not stimulating, all these things need to be in other bills.
• $100 million for science
Science is good, but these need to be in education stimulating bills.
• $1 billion for Energy Loan Guarantees
Eh. I was indifferent this one.
• $4.5 billion for GSA
I'm becoming a broken record. Other bills.
• $89 million GSA operations
And I repeat myself.
• $50 million from DHS
This one is actually needed. the DHS is rather underfunded in my opinion. But yeah, I repeat myself.
• $200 million TSA
Kill them, security theatre isn't my cup of tea. I prefer real security.
• $122 million for Coast Guard Cutters, modifies use
This should be in another bill with the Ice Breaker money.
• $25 million for Fish and Wildlife
Is it job creating? If it's not, it needs to be here.
• $55 million for historic preservation
I copied and pasted this from CNN, they fail at proofreading.
• $20 million for working capital fund
Bahhhh... Die.
• $165 million for Forest Service capital improvement
Other bills.
• $90 million for State and Private Wildlife Fire Management
No.
• $1 billion for Head Start/Early Start
Education bills, not stimulus bills.
• $5.8 billion for Health Prevention Activity
Health bills, bahhh...
• $2 billion for HIT Grants
Good.
• $600 million for Title I (NCLB)
Bah....
• $16 billion for school construction
Education bills, but yes, this can stimulate the construction business. But put it in the education bill...
• $3.5 billion for higher education construction
As I said above.
• $1.25 billion for project based rental
Beh...
• $2.25 billion for Neighborhood Stabilization
Useful, but other bills.
• $1.2 billion for retrofitting Project 8 housing
Stimulate the construction industry. But yeah, it could have been here or in another bill.
These things definitely need to be put in other bills.
So yeah, they did an alright job getting rid of this stuff out of the stimulus bill. They kept half of of some of the good stuff, and got rid of that that needed to be in other bills.
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